The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


YOUNG WOMAN in Fonda, n. Y, is said to
! have gone on hiccoughing for three months
past. except when under the influence of opiates,
| until she is now mere wreck
AN UNKNOWN MAN who threw himself in front
| of a locomotive on a railroad in Litchfield,
| Conn, and was crushed to death on Tuesday,
was observed kneeling near the track in an atti
| tude of fervent prayer before the engine came
along.
A CONNECTICUT EAGLE picked up a small bull
dog from the highway and went sailing off with
il, but as soon as the dog got over his first as
| constituent he seized the bird by the leg ana
| made him come back to earth and do some very
| humble begging
AMONG the titles of recent books and pamph-
lets of English writer's are: London ''Horri-
BILE Londonn' STARVING London" The Modern
Babylon GM the rb Poor modrr1 page of
LondonH and THE Bitter Cry OF Outcast Lon
DOM
| LITTLE GIRL at Lewiston, Me-, fell into feed
box IL by Is inches running from hay loft TO
| the trough below. She fell in head first, and
slipped out through broken board in the trough,
| frightening the horse so he ran away. All she
said about her accident was: Ma, the horse is
| loose"
THE gossiper of the St. Paul Pioneer Press
claims to have found new way to test the
freshness of eggs. Wipe the large end of an
| egg, he says quite clean and then touch the tip
| Of the tongue to the central part of this big
end. If the egg is good, there will be a little
warm spot inside the egg which Will be plainly
| perceptible to the tongue.
TWENTY-FIVE MILE HORSE RACE was run at
| San Francisco recently, and was won by one
| Anderson who covered the distance in one hour
| eleven and half minutes. His only opponent
was
mile According to the conditions the con-
testants were to have five horses apiece, and to
change animals after each mile.
| THE following table is from an English source
and claims to be measurably correct as to the
ages of birds mentioned: Blackbird lives IL
years, blackcap Is, canary a. crane "a, crow 100,
| eagle 100 fowl common. 10, goldfinch To- goose
| So heron SO, lark 10, linnet %, nightingale Is,
parrot 90, partridge Is, peacock "a pelican 90,
pheasant Is, pigeon 20, raven 100, robin IL, sky
| lark 80, sparrow hawk DO, swan 100, thrush TO-
| wren 3.
THE fire waste record for 1857 in the United
States and the Dominion of Canada promises to
be the heaviest ever known, already exceeding
| that for the corresponding period in 1886 by
about 20 per cent and steadily growing. A pc
| cuiar feature of the situation is that the great
| bulk of the property now being reduced to ashes
is what underwriters class as the choicest risks,
/ while the kind usually counted extra hazardous
and insured only at the highest rates, If written
at all, is escaping destruction.
In February last Perry Lampman, an old
widower residing in Orange, Ionia county,
Mich decided his farm of forty acres to Mrs.
| Eunice Wright, in conformity with an agree
ment between them that Mrs Wright should
marry him after he had so decided the farm.
After getting the deed she concluded she didn't
want to marry him. while she was so reluctant
| to deed back the land that q suit has been begun
| to set aside the deed, and special guardian has
been appointed for the innocent old chap
IAN ATTEMPT on the life of the Gar is a
favorite game with Sicilian urchins who have
heard their fathers and neighbors talking poll
tics. But the mock Nihilists found serious
ending to their play the other day in Messina
| A little fellow, the son of miner, found cart
| ridge charged with dynamite, and, delighted
| with his discovery, summoned his companions
| for the fun. One of the boys represented the
| Gar, the others formed an ambush of Nihilists,
| and at a given moment one sprang out and
| flung the cartridge at the feet of his pretended
| sovereign. The charge exploded with such dis
astrous effect that the poor little mimic Gar
was terribly wounded and died few hours
| later.
A PATHETIC SCENE took place in a Philadelphia
boarding house a few days ago. Hearing the
crying of q child in the room of Mrs. Ebert, one
of the dodgers, Mrs. Peters, the landlady tried
to enter Finding the door locked she had it
| forced open, and found Mrs. Ebert lying dead
| on the bed, while her 2year-old child was hug
| ging the corpse; trying to wake her by crying
| piteouSly: Mamma! mammal post -mOrtem
examination revealed the fact that death was
due 10 a dose of cyanide of potassium. II APP
| pears that the woman's husband disappeared on
| Friday last sending letter to his wife in which
| he said he would not return before Wednesday,
and that if she would go to the post Office she
| would learn the cause of his absence. 1t is sup
| that Mrs. Ebert feared her husband had de-
| serted her, and decided to end her troubles by
| taking her own life.
THE Queen Regent of Spain is knocking the
blue laws of Spanish etiquette to pieces at a
jolly rate The other day she called meeting
OF the Ministry at the Castle of Aranjuez.
When the statesmen reached the gate of the
park they found the Queen and the Princess
| Isabel waiting for them. The Queen was in q
victoria, and the Princess Isabel was in drag
| and four The Queen was driving. She invited
| Senior Segasta to take seat beside her, and the
other Ministers were accommodated in
| the drag. On reaching the Castle coffee was
| brought and the Queen ordered cigars to be
| The Ministers seemed to hesitate. In all the
| annals of Spanish history no subject had ever
| smoked in the presence of Queen. The Queen
| Regent, however, gave the command, and the
| Minister'S like dutiful subjects, obeyed, Gold
| Sticks and Chamberlains have been ever since
in hopeless dependency.
"'NoN, NON, NoN' exclaims Nine. valot in
the San Francisco Examiner, you must not
sink Nine. Sarah, wit her sweet leete voice
like you hear her on the stage, has re best tenn.
pair in re world Eat is her business to be
charmante' when everybody is looking, but
| mon DieuH you should hear her sometimes
| a la maison'-how you say Eat? Ze hotel
| Naturally she is re great Bernhardt and she
| can have 'ses nerfs when everybody come in
| and feel sorry because she is 'souffrante NJ
| Grau bring smelling salts, and Monsieur Mayer
| take out from re room re leetle 'chiens' who
| make re aboye,' 1ow-wow. Zen re room is
| made very dark, Madame Sarah she Sleep ger
] she open one eye and because she no see pool
| Valot, who has gone out for one leetle minute
she begin with her saperlotte cristi sac-a-papier
| non dun petit bonhomme Valot, why is it yor
| abandonez' me all alone among strangers? Eat
| Is only one of &c times when Madame Sarah
show she have too. lectle tempair, but some
other times, oh, mon Dieu,' you should heal
| her in he grande rage"
A CORRESPONDENT of the Globe Democrat al
Pana, ILL.,, tells of an alleged miraculous cure Of
stammering at revival in Montgomery county
that State. The person on whom the alleged
miracle was worked is William Dewitt, an old
citizen. Until the moment of his conversion be
had always been a worldly man from the Bible
| standpoint, and had also suffered from STAN.
| mering. So great was the extent of his affiic.
| ton that even his most intimate friends a nd